Czech Republic
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Author_Rick Fawn
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central European studies
Czech Economy
Czech Foreign Policy
Czech German Relations
Czech Lands
Czech National Identity
Czech National Revival
Czech Political
Czech Political Life
Czech Privatization
Czech Republic
Czechoslovak Economy
democratic transition studies
east
economic liberalisation research
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european
foreign
Fronta Dnes
government
institutional change analysis
Ivan Lendl
Jan Svejnar
klaus
Klaus Government
lands
national identity formation
NATO Membership
peaceful state dissolution analysis
pehe
Petr Pithart
policy
Political Life
politics
Post-communist Czechoslovakia
postcommunist transformation
RL Newsline
Slovak National Council
Small Privatization
Sudeten Germans
Tv Nova
Voucher Privatization
Product details
- ISBN 9789058230430
- Weight: 520g
- Dimensions: 174 x 246mm
- Publication Date: 30 May 2000
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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Czechoslovakia has captured the nation's imagination throughout the twentieth century. The Allied betrayal of the country to Nazi Germany in 1938 was to demonstrate the appalling consequences of naive appeasement of aggression. The wholesale reform of Soviet communism in the Prague Spring of 1968 won western support, and sympathy when it was crushed by Warsaw Pact tanks. The fierce communist regime thereafter was brought down almost magically in 1989. Czechoslovakia added to the international political vocabulary the term, 'Velvet Revolution', and the velvet metaphor has characterised much of the country's path-breaking postcommunist transformation and its peaceful break-up in 1993.
In separate chapters on history, politics, economics, foreign relations and the new Czech identity, this book not only applauds the successes of the Czech Republic since 1993, but also uncovers the frayed edges of the velvet nation.
